On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
to be honest I never noticed them when I was using LaTeX. It might have been the fonts.
Someone had to show me the first ligature years ago and when he did that, I had to check every single book and document I had at hand to check if ligatures were really commonly used. I simply couldn't believe my eyes and the fact that it took me some 15 years of literacy and a couple of years of using TeX without ever noticing any ligature anywhere. I consider this (the fact that one doesn't notice it) part of a good design. It's similar with kerning: one doesn't notice it until/unless it's bad. It's similar in the kitchen also. One doesn't notice that there is salt in food unless there's too little or too much of it present. Mojca PS: if you really hate the ligatures, you can try to help improve this "interesting" package to handle ligatures (it probably has the most potential in engines other than XeTeX/LuaTeX because it's a bit more complicated to turn off the ligatures there): http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/serbian-lig The package defines commands for all the words from a dictionary which contain letters "fi", for example \def\profit{prof\kern 0.03em it\xspace} \def\Gadafi{Gadaf\kern 0.03em i\xspace} % \stopsarcasm